Windows – Unable to open .vsdx files with Microsoft Visio Viewer 2013

microsoft-visio-2013windows 7

I do not have Visio 2013 on my PC and downloaded the Visio Viewer and installed without errors both the x86 and x64 versions and rebooted. Still there is no file association to the viewer nor does it look like ActiveX is setup in the browser. Anyone have any guidance on the issue or workarounds?

I'm running Win 7 Enterprise.

Best Answer

I'm struggling with this same problem. The only way I could get Visio Viewer 2013 to recognize vsdx files on a machine with Visio 2010 installed was to first uninstall Visio 2010, install Visio Viewer 2013, and reinstall Visio 2010.